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Time has come for thy revenge 



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APR 6 1917 



I. 

THE ONLY WAY 



II. 

WAKE UP, YOUNG AMERICA 

Be France's Ally. 



III. 
TIME HAS COME FOR THY REVENGE 



THE ONLY WAY 

To promote the cause of universal peace on earth and advocate 
the liherty and freedom of America as well as neutral countries, we 
must uprise against Prussianism and militarism that prepared this 
cyclonic war in Europe. 

As a free civilized country, it is the duty of America to enable 
France to crush both Prussian militarism and Turks' Mohammed- 
dan Holy Wars forever and avenge the outrages committed upon 
helpless women and children by the German, Austrian and Turkish 
pirates and barbarians of the twentieth century. 

We all feel that the killing of man by man in battle is barbaric 
and negatives our claim of American civilization, but when the 
sacred rights of America and Plumanity are involved, it is the duty 
of every well born young American to take up arms and knock 
down ferocious and inhumane beings who try to destroy modern 
civilization by brutal force, thus making treaties, which represent 
the honor of civilized nations: A SCRAP OF PAPER. 

We need to be aroused to our duty and banish Prussianism from 
the earth. 

Every intelligent American, not the hyphenated one, feels that 
the civilized world will not, cannot, long tolerate the killing of man 
by man as a means of settling its international disputes, and that 
civilized men will not, cannot, long enter a profession which binds 
them to go forth and kill their fellow-men as ordered. 

The time has come, brethren, to fight those outlaws of Europe, 
who murdered in cold-blood our citizens, without mercy, by sink- 
ing without warning, alike thieves, the Liisitania, the Arabic, the 
Ancona and the Persia: Four unforgivable and unforgotten ca- 
tastrophes in modern history of America and an insult to our honor 
and sacred rights, not accounting the Gitlfiight and Hesperian inci- 
dents, and lately the dreadful massacre of Santa Izabel paid for 
by Von Papen's spies or friends in order to avenge his recall, and 
that is my opinion. 

Let us show those pirates that we now are ready to make them 
obey international law, by force, if necessary, and respect our sa- 
cred right of free travel on the seas whenever and wherever we 
like to. 

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This outlawry we wish to banish from the face of the earth for- 
ever, and to do so we should modify our Monroe Doctrine for such 
an obligation and a necessity. We must uprise against Von Tir- 
pitz piracy and fight on the side of France, the light of Liberty and 
Freedom, to whom we owe our own liberty, we acquired by the 
devouement of her sons who fought our great Revolution. 

That is why I am appealing to you, young America of 1916, and 
to our Representatives in Congress to introduce an amendment for 
the revision of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine in order 
to enable us to prepare for 

AN ENTENTE CORDIALE WmT FRANCE, 

without harming the technicality of the said principles of said Mon- 
roe Doctrine, for without such an entente Avith France we may be 
unable to crush the military cast not only of Prussia but also of 
the powers who stood and will stand by her piracy, and to make 
Turks' Holy Wars and massacres of Christians and Armenians 
an impossibility in future. 

There is no difference between the two great sister Republics : 
France anrl the United States of America. 

France is fighting for the success of a world moral and revolu- 
tionary movement against Prussianism for the liberty of small na- 
tions, as well as great and of the weak and the oppressed, for the 
triumph of Justice. The United States is trying to get the free- 
dom of the seas without firing a single shot of their eft'ective pow- 
der by simply asking the Central Powers to abandon their piracy ; 
but such a diplomatic weapon is not strong enough to bring to their 
senses iIk- brutes of Prussia, unless we come out and make them 
taste our American medical powder from the big guns of our 
mighty navy. I'oth countries are working for a sublime purpose 
toward the bringing and establishment of a lasting universal ])eace 
and liberty based upon the sacred respect of treaties and Humanity 
rights. 

That's why luigland, France, Russia and Italy lately were forced 
to unite to be strong enough to crush together and strangle Prus- 
sianism for good, thus freeing Euroi)e from such a formidable 
plague. 

Tliis greatest enterprise they are rushing vigorously and hope 
they will succeed soon and by next Spring. 

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WAKE UP, YOUNG AMERICA 
BE FRANCE'S ALLY 

When this greatest cyclonic war ends and Germany is crushed, 
we shall hear England proclaiming disarmament first and France, 
Russia and Italy coming next, and the United States with remain- 
ing powers following; thus each civilized nation would have acted 
and gone forth toward a lasting peace and liberty and begun a 
true European civilization combined with the American's. 

Note this : that when this disgraceful conflict above imagination 
is over and the treaty of peace drawn up, that treaty will contain 
but one main article, that of a general disarmament and the estab- 
lishment of a Universal Police. 

It is the existence of Prussian militarism that brought war abroad 
and undermined our safety here, as for instance the fomenting of 
strikes and the blowing up of some of our ammunition plants, paid 
for by German dirty spy money. 

To hold peace meetings during this war in the United States and 
other neutral countries is the most childish work that will bring 
no result, unless Germany is completely crushed and financially 
cracked. 

I hope that Mr. Ford's Peace Ship Party will soon return home 
as quick as they will know of the German blackhand and secret in- 
trigues which brought the Santa Izabel cold-blooded murder in 
Mexico. 

Let us stand by our wise President Wilson and firm-headed Mr. 
Lansing, who will not lose the opportunity of sending an ultimatum 
to the German, Austrian, and Turkish governments of pirates, 
when, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for us 
to act so for the safety and honor of our country and Humanity. 

Let us now ask our officials of the Navy and Army to have our 
effective powder, and plenty of it, ready for use, when the hour of 
revenge will strike. 

Let us prescribe to Von Tirpitz followers and bandits some of 
our American medicinal gun powder in order to cure their bloody ' 
hearts and savage brains from the love of militarism and piracy 
forever. Let us teach those Prussians that American civilization 
and rights mean not A SCRAP OF PAPER. 

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There is but one way to bring to a successful end such a noble 
work, and that is by a union similar to the Quadruple Entente. 

It is not for a matter of conquest that England, France, Russia 
and Italy have united. 

It is for freedom and liberty. It is to free from Prussianism 
and barbarism, not only Europe, but the whole earth that will af- 
terwards be called a true, civilized world. 

I believe and have the strongest feelings that Universal Peace 
and Lilierty Avill not be the fruit of this gigantic struggle for which 
Prussia is to be blamed alone, unless we young Americans put our 
hands in and fight on the side of the Allies, who are shedding their 
blood freely for the Liberty of the World and the triumph of Right 
and Justice against German outrage. 

Let us vmite with France in order to keep our modern civiliza- 
tion from being darkened by Prussianism and piracy, always shin- 
ing in the light of Right and Liberty. 

France has done her share, let us add ours for the sake of Man- 
kind and the honor of our flag, thus enabling her to bring to a 
speedy end the downfall of Prussia and Von Tirpitz' followers. 
Let us make our name a great respectable one, as France's, before 
the eyes of the present and future generations in the history of the 
World. 

()ur first duty is to prepare ade(|uate defence; our next duty, 
to unite with France, without breaking the principles of the ]\Ion- 
roe Doctrine in order to enable us to free the seas from piracy. 

W^\KE UP, YOUNG AMERICA! BE FRANCE'S ALLY 



TIME HAS COME FOR OUR 
REVENGE 

Meanwhile my heart sorrows for the working classes and ])oor 
fellow-men whenever I read in the newspa])ers that some of them 
having children are forced to stand in the bread-line at Paris, Lon- 
don, Petrograd, Rome and somewhere in Greater New York, sim- 
])ly because Prussianism is the chief cause of their distress, for 
billions and 1)illions of dollars have been spent for years and years 
in the Kru])p Gun Works, and because armaments have eaten all the 
benefit of their hard work, for they had to invest their savings for 

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an adequate defence in order to protect their homes against the 
mihtary menace of Germany. That is why my heart appeals to you 
in plain English only, not knowing enough versification. 

TO YOUNG AMERICA OF 1916 

FIRST STANZA 

Arise, proud children of the New World, 

The reign of Peace and Liberty must soon come. 

Against war scourge and Prussianism 

The flag of life is hoisted. 

By universal agreement and without mercy 

Destroy all warriors and pirates ; 

And establish your friendship upon a lasting peace 

and freedom. 
Based on the sacred respect of treaties and Humanity 
rights. 

CHORUS 

Forward ! Children of Peace and Liberty, 

Proclaim everywhere : no more war, 

No more pirates on the seas. 

No more Prussian despots on the earth. 

No more Turkish outrages forever. 

Friends, to banish war and piracy is your destiny; 

And to die for Liberty, the lot of well born souls. 

My heart bleeds for the aged mother and father, who die from 
sorrow, when they learn their only support, their son, has been 
killed in the firing line on the field of honor on account of Prus- 
sianism. That is why my heart appeals to you. 

TO YOUNG AMERICA OF 1916 

SECOND STANZA 

What do they want those butchers of war, t 

Those pirates of the twentieth century, 
Those ignoble drinkers of blood 
WHio, without heart, snatched from the motiier 

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Her only son, the father's hope? 

Proud American young men ! What are you waiting 

for? 
Have we not enough murder, outrage and piracy ? 
Isn't to hve the right of all and to travel on the free 

seas our sacred rights? 

My heart sorrows and sorrows more again each time I learn 
that some high-ranked fellow-men, some Prussian despots, some 
Pro-Germans, in Europe and America, are trying to spread mili- 
tarism among neutral powers by waging a campaign in favor of 
bigger armies and navies, for if they prepare them again for war, 
sooner or later they shall have war, because preparation for war 
brings war, unless it is the sacred duty of a country to prepare for 
it in order to safeguard its honor against a brutal invader of her 
rights as it is the case of the Allies and iicrc. That's why I appeal 
to you. 



TO YOUNG AMERICA OF 1916 

THIRD STANZA 

What ! To be led again by such vile and mercenary 

hands. 
What ! Some sanguinary Prussian barbarians 
Want to command us and weaken our freedom? 
O Liberty ! Guardian of our souls. 
Guide us against those infamous rascals 
Who do not merit any pity nor the least forgiveness. 

FOURTH STANZA 

Let us pay homage to Lafayette and the brave 

Rochambeau, 
Who commanded the French Allies in the American 

Revolution, 
And helped us acquiring our liberty. 
And of France, let us be her Ally and fight for her 

freedom 
In return of her services for our's during our 

Revolution. 

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Honor to the valiant advocates of Peace and Liberty, 
Who know how to devote for the love of Right and 

Justice 
Their soul, heart and zeal, in propagating their sacred 

respect 
By fighting against Prussianism and Piracy. 

FIFTH STANZA 

We shall have fulfilled our duty 

And acquired the virtues of Peace and Liberty, 

When Prussian pirates and Mohammedan butchers 

On our earth will no more be, 

And when our glorious Franco-American flag of 

Liberty 
Will fly everywhere fraternizing all nations forever, 
Thus establishing a better civilized world. 
Based upon the sacred respect of Public Law, Liberty 

and the Rights of Man. 
WAKE UP, YOUNG AMERICA! 
BE FRANCE'S ALLY : 
TIME HAS COME FOR THY REVENGE. 
FORWARD ! YOUNG AMERICANS, FORWARD ! 
SO HELP US GOD. 

By Nicholas Le Petit. 

New York, January 25, 1916. 



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